Language and Space, Volume 1. Theories and Methods /: An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation

The dimensions of time and space fundamentally cause and shape the variability of all human language. To reduce investigation of this insight to manageable proportions, researchers have traditionally concentrated on the "deepest" dialects. But it is increasingly apparent that, although most people still speak with a distinct regional coloring, the new mobility of speakers in recently industrialized and postindustrial societies and the efflorescence of communication technologies cannot be ignored. This has given rise to a reconsideration of the relationship between geographical place and cultur

Frontmatter --; Contents --; I. Introduction: Language and space --; 1. Language and geographical space --; 2. Language and social spaces --; 3. Language and political spaces --; 4. Language and transnational spaces --; II. Linguistic approaches to space --; 5. Language and space: The neogrammarian tradition --; 6. Language and space: Traditional dialect geography --; 7. Language and Space: The kulturmorphologische Ansatz in dialectology and the German language space ideology, 1920-1960 --; 8. Language and space: Structuralist and generative approaches --; 9. Language and space: The variationist approach --; 10. Who's there? Language and space in social anthropology and interactional sociolinguistics --; 11. Language, space and the folk --; 12. Language and space: The linguistic dynamics approach --; III. Structure and dynamics of a language space --; 13. Identifing dimensions of linguistic variation in a language space --; 14. Horizontal convergence of linguistic varieties in a language space --; 15. Vertical convergence of linguistic varieties in a language space --; 16. Divergence of linguistic varieties in a language space --; 17. Emergence of varieties through restructuring and reevaluation --; 18. Urban and rural language --; 19. Discontinuous language spaces (Sprachinseln) --; 20. Linguistic stability in a language space --; 21. Old minorities within a language space --; IV. Structure and dynamics across language spaces --; 22. Contact-induced grammatical change: A cautionary tale --; 23. Areal language typology --; 24. The consequences of migration and colonialism I: Pidgins and creoles --; 25. The consequences of migration and colonialism II: Overseas varieties --; 26. The consequences of migration and colonialism III: New minorities --; 27. Non-convergence despite language contact --; V. Data collection and corpus-building --; 28. Investigating language in space: Methods and empirical standards --; 29. Investigating language in space: Questionnaire and interview --; 30. Investigating language in space: Experimental techniques --; VI. Data analysis and the presentation of results --; 31. Measuring dialect differences --; 32. Linguistic atlases - traditional and modern --; 33. Dialect dictionaries - traditional and modern --; 34. Community-based investigations: From traditional dialect grammar to sociolinguistic studies --; VII. Exemplary studies --; 35. Untying the language-body-place connection: A study on linguistic variation and social style in a Copenhagen community of practice --; 36. A study on areal diffusion --; 37. The Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rhine (MRhSA): A study on the emergence and spread of regional dialects --; 38. Challenging the homogeneity assumption in language variation analysis: Findings from a study of multilingual urban spaces --; 39. Variety complexes in contact: A study on Uruguayan and Brazilian Fronterizo --; 40. Language as a process: A study on transnational spaces --; 41. The study of language and space in media discourse --; VIII. Structural domains: Methodological problems --; 42. Areal variation in segmental phonetics and phonology --; 43. Areal variation in prosody --; 44. Areal variation in morphology --; 45. Lexical variation in space --; 46. Areal variation in syntax --; 47. Areal variation and discourse --; Backmatter